Why ? care to elaborate ? Thanks I ordered one to replace one I dropped a few times. I use it to record fro FTA boxes. Work great. The drive is good, the one a dropped, but the associated external circuit gave up.

Speaking for myself, I experienced 100% failure with their 7200.11 drives. Then 100% failure of the warranty replacements. When I received the second set of warranty replacements, they all went on eBay.

Why ? care to elaborate ? Thanks I ordered one to replace one I dropped a few times. I use it to record fro FTA boxes. Work great. The drive is good, the one a dropped, but the associated external circuit gave up.

Read the reviews.

Seagate dropped quality control off the cliff when acquired Maxtor.

I've had many Seagate drive DOAs. I just sent back an external to Amazon when I reconsidered that the risk wasn't worth it.

I use drives like they're candy at work. I normally buy Western Digital Caviar Black drives. I had to buy one in an emergency a couple years ago. It was a Seagate 2.0 TB drive (don't remember the model, just a consumer 7200 RPM SATA model). So far, through at least 30 drives in the past two years, that Seagate is the ONLY drive to fail on me. Yeah, Seagate is a bad word in my lab.

Speaking for myself, I experienced 100% failure with their 7200.11 drives. Then 100% failure of the warranty replacements. When I received the second set of warranty replacements, they all went on eBay.

Seagate drives are off my list permanently.

In my use I've had zero percent failure with the Seagate 5900rpm drives. I'm currently using several dozen of them in my WHS and two unRAIDs and have not had any issues in the 1.5 years to 2 years I've been using them. They have been just as reliable as the dozens of WD green drives I've been using the last four or five years.

YMMV, as always. I had four 1T Seagate drives crap out all at once one wonderful day. The array was RAID6, but with only 2 parity drives, that still meant the entire array (12T) went ker-flop! Of course, I had backups, and eventually I was able to recover the data from the drives, but it still was an annoying problem. I've also had Hitachi and WD drives fail, not to mention Maxtor, Datascribe, CDC, etc. Hard drives do three things: read data, write data, and eventually fail.

Four drives failing simultaneously sounds like some kind of outside influence caused it. I've known people that have had multiple drives die in the past, but it was always something from the PC or enclosure that caused the multiple failures.

I could even see a bad batch of drives failing early, but the odds that they would all fail on their own at the exact same time without any outside influence seems pretty high. Unless there was some error in the code in the drive or something that caused an issue after a certain number of hours and all the drives reached that number at the same time.

A long warranty implies a drive with a lower failure rate, or at least a lower failure rate during that time, or a company willing to take the risk that they can afford the return rate over the longer period.

In this day and age give then amount of digital data we all have it makes sense to have some sort of backup, ideally automatic and off site.

They certainly can't warranty your data. Any data that is important should have multiple backups.

So far, after using over a couple hundred hard drives over the last twenty years, I've yet to have a hard drive die while in use with data on it. I've had a couple DOA before and a couple that were screwed from user error(I broke part of the connector off). Even my 20+ year old 20MB hard drive still works in my ancient PC with an 8088 processor.